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Windows 7: Windows Explorer crashing when I click on one specific folder

- Same folder I have all my media files in
- Occurred after torrenting a file.
- Tried booting in safe mode, and the problem doesn't occur when I click on/into the specific folder.
- Ran malware and antivirus programs and both show no infections
- tried sfc /scannow multiple times, and no change

I have had a similar issues in the past because of corrupted video files.
Windows would begin to load the folder & try to generate the thumbnail.
Then it would just crash & a few times even had a blue screen.
That was with MP4 files specifically.
What I did was to open the folder & immediately click the stop button on top before the folder could begin to load the thumbnail.
Then I went in & changed the view to details.
Once that was done I got rid of the offending file.
If I did not know which one was corrupted I ran a

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